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Marinette and Adrien woke up earlier, and got out of bed. Five days into their vacation, Adrien had been coming over every night because of his restlessness, and Marinette gladly slept on the couch with him.

"I'll bring us some croissants." Marinette yawned. She flipped the covers over, and headed down stairs.

She looked around, but nothing was on. She walked into the bakery, and the 'closed' sign was still hanging, and the lights and ovens were off.

"Mama!" She called out. "Papa!" She felt the display cases, and they were cold.

She looked in the back, and found no one.

"Marinette!" Adrien called from upstairs. He seemed a little distressed. She ran up the stairs, and jumped into the room.

Adrien was next to her bed, holding up a letter.

"What is it?" She asked. Adrien jumped down and handed it to her to read.

"Next time, you should keep track of your belongings. Or they may disappear." She read the curly handwriting. She started to panic.

"My parents are gone." She told him. "Tikki!" Marinette called. No answer.

"Plagg!" Adrien called. There was a subtle sound from the drawer. Marinette opened it up, and saw the two in the drawer, and they looked sick.

"Why are you two in there? What's wrong?" She scooped them up, and placed them on the couch.

"Nathaie. The snake miraculous. He came back. She drugged us." Plagg told them. Tikki was barely awake, and she kept nodding off.

Marinette dialed Alya quickly, and put it on speaker. She picked immediately.

"Marinette! My parents are gone! They took Ella and Etta!" She exclaimed in the phone. "Keeda is sick. I don't know what to do!"

"Head to the dojo. We'll meet up." She hung up the phone. Adrien was already dialing Nino.

"Nino! Are you alright? Are your parents missing?" He shot at him. Nino groaned.

"Dude. I don't know if it was a dream or what, but something happened. This Salamander dude came in here. I can't find my parents, and Wayzz looks like he's going to puke. I can't even function, man. Everything is so weird looking." He said in a weird voice.

"I'm heading over there." Adrien hung up.

Adrien placed Plagg in his pocket, and Marinette placed Tikki in her purse. The two ran out, and towards Nino's apartment.

They ran upstairs to his door, and knocked.

It took Nino a moment, and he slowly opened the door.

He was leaned up against the wall, and let them in. He could barely keep his head up.

Adrien hung Nino's arm over him, and he carried him back to sit on the couch.

"Where's Wayzz?" Nino pointed to his room. Inside, Wayzz was asleep on the bed. Marinette grabbed him, and placed him in her purse.

"Let's get you back to the dojo." Marinette grabbed him, and placed him on her back.

"You go and check if Nathalie is gone. I'll meet you at the dojo." Marinette told him.

The two split up, and Adrien ran back across Paris, to the manor.

There were red lights all over the manor, and a crowd had formed around the gates.

"Move. Move!" Adrien made his way through the crowd. He jumped the gate, and ran inside. The door was cracked open, and the lock had been broken.

He ran inside, and the computer had been overturned, and the chair was on it's side.

"Nathalie!" Adrien yelled. He ran to the kitchen, and the chef was laying on the ground and out of it. Adrien kneeled down and patted his face.

"Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" He asked worried. The chef didn't answer, but he reached into his pocket, and pulled out a letter. Adrien took it.


Motyl tipped us off. We know who you are. Good luck finding them.


Adrien pocketed the letter, and ran out.

He headed to the dojo, kicked his shoes off, and ran inside. Alya, Nino, and Marinette were there. Along with Alex, Tony, Master Fu, and the kwamis.

"Nathair drugged everyone. The secretary helped figure out our identities." Adrien told them.

"We know. I think someone watched us get into the car, and tracked us here." Alex agreed. "Thankfully she couldn't find the dojo. Us and our kwamis are safe."

"How do we fix them? And Nino, too." Alya asked Master Fu.

"I think it is just a temporary poison. We can probably smoke it out. But for right now, I think our best bet is to leave France, and head back to Tibet." He told them.

"Get home and pack a quick bag. Don't stop anywhere, or show your face for a long amount of time. Put these on." He handed everyone a beanie and big sunglasses. They pulled their hair into the cap, and placed the glasses on. Nino was going to stay at the dojo since he was drugged as well. Adrien, Alya, and Marinette ran out, and got their stuff packed. Adrien stopped by Nino's place, and packed him a bag, and then they ran back to the dojo. As they ran around Paris, it seemed that everyone was too occupied on their phones watching the police run into the manor. Even though others were missing, the Agreste estate seemed like a hotter topic.

Everyone met back up at the dojo, and it looks like they were all ready to leave.

"I called the pilot. He will be at the airport soon. We have to get there quickly, don't speak to anyone. I called a taxi." Master Fu lead them downstairs, and there was a larger taxi waiting for them. They stuff their bags in the back, and climbed in.

Once they got to the airport, they hurried around and got to the gate. Since the plane was there, they easily ran out and loaded their possessions on the plane.

Soon the plane was taking off, and the reality was setting in.

Marinette had curled up on one end of the sofa, and she was hugging a pillow. Alya was checking her Ladybug blog, going over the same stats multiple times, not knowing what to do with herself. Nino ended up falling asleep with the kwamis, and Alex and Tony were sitting in their seats, reading some magazines. Adrien rubbed Marinette's back to comfort her, and he thought about what could be happening to them.

"You don't have to worry about your family. I can assure you that they are unharmed. Most likely they are just scared and alone. Blizz would never let a master hurt an innocent. But that does not make you safe in this situation. To them, you are the enemy." Master Fu explained to them. "We will figure out where they are."

It definitely made them feel better. Marinette turned, and laid her head on Adrien's lap, where he combed his fingers through her hair.

A couple hours later, they were entering the area of Tibet. Their plane landed on the strip, and everyone bragged their luggage. Nino was the temporary kwamis keeper, as his balance improved, he carried all the comatose or tired kwamis.

They repacked their clothes in their rooms. Tony walked around, and told everyone to meet at the hot spring, and to bring the kwamis.

Marinette changed into a tube top and a bathing suit bottom, and brought a towel with her. She tied her hair up on the way down to the spring, and met the others. Master Fu was there, and he was sprinkling in different amounts of different looking herbs and flowers. Nino was there, and he had the kwamis with him. All were awake now, but they still were hallucinating slightly and couldn't keep their heads up.

Alex and Tony put a little neck floaty around Nino's head and lowered him into the water. He floated around, and the herbs would occasionally stick to him. Marinette couldn't help but to find this a little funny since Nino was still tripping tripping on whatever he was on.

Tony took the kwamis, and placed them in the water, and let them float around.

"Well climb in. No sense in letting an herb spa waste." Alex motioned.

Marinette climbed in and relaxed with her arms on the rocks. Adrien and Alya soon followed in, and then did Alex and Tony. Master Fu took his robe off to releave a very modern looking plain tee shirt and swim trunks.

"Wow Master Fu. Where did you get those?" Tony joked lightly.

"My daughter always sends me modern clothing. I usually only wear them when I sleep or when I used to exercise." He told them. He relaxed in the pool as well, and everyone silently relaxed.

"How is this hot spring supposed to detoxify them?" Marinette asked.

"Oh it doesn't do that. The warm water just keeps them calm while they go through their rage phase." He told them casually.

"Rage phase? What do you mean? You said this will smoke out the poison." Alex asked, now a little worried.

"I didn't want to cause panic, so I said that. Technically these herbs do speed up the process of healing, but Nino and the kwamis would have gone through a fairly violent phase that the poison induces." Master Fu explained. "Since Nino was still out of the breaking news and he was fairly unbalanced, I estimated that he had a couple hours until the rage would set in. This usually last half an hour, and the affected person will feel so much adrenaline that the only way to cope is through violent bursts. The kwamis usually just sporadically smack you in the arm or pull your hair, but Nino has the ability to do some damage. So I want him asleep through the phase."

"Are we safe just swimming with him?" Adrien asked.

Master Fu shrugged his shoulders. "Nino is fast asleep, and he is still a poor swimmer. Ironic as his kwami is a turtle. But anyways, he shouldn't awake at all, and if he does, it'll take him 5 minutes to get out of the spring. That gives us enough time to hide."

After a little bit, Plagg and Pollen seemed a little agitated. They were kind of half-ass fighting the water around them. But they were so sleepy already that it kind of resembled angry flies.

They did this for, as said, half an hour, and they went right back to sleep. Nino never woke up in that time, and he just floated around the spring.

"Who's going to wake him up?" Alya asked, looking around. Marinette volunteered.

"Be careful. His first initial will be violent, but it will only last a split second." Master Fu warned once more.

Marinette swam underneath Nino, and poked his back. Nino jerked away and thrashed his arms, but it stopped as soon as it began. Nino swam vertical, and Marinette popped up.

"There you are, Nino. How do you feel?" Marinette asked.

He looked around confused for a moment, and then realized what happened, and put two and two together.

"I feel better. A little weak though." Marinette helped him get to the shore, and Nino sat on the edge. Alex retrieved the kwamis, and set them on the shore. They woke up, but staid on their backs as they were sleepy.

"I'll bring you back home, bro." Adrien patted his back and helped Nino up. Nino was able to walk fairly well. He resembled a slightly tipsy girl in slightly too high heels. But other than that he seemed a lot better.

The other climbed out, and went to the showers to rinse off and then headed to bed.

Master Fu took the kwamis with him so they would rest together, and Marinette snuck over to Adrien's room.

She knocked, and he opened the door.

"Why look at this. It looks like it's ladybug season." Adrien smirked.

"Don't cross me Adrien. It's bad luck." She giggled. Adrien let her in, and she sat on the bed.

Adrien climbed in, and Marinette joined under the covers. Marinette hugged him around his waist, and he face was in his chest. He kissed her on the top of the head, and the two fell asleep in the others arms.

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